Random filament changes? Not model or settings?
I grabbed this design from Thingiverse, it is shown printed in one color, no mention of stopping to change filament in description.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2038043
On the 2nd layer (printed tall with writing on bottom), the printer stopped and asked to swap filament. The only changes I made to stock Prusa PETG profile was to not print a skirt and dropped the print temps a bit for the eSun PETG I'm using. I can't even find a way to put a filament change in Slic3r PE, so I have no idea how it got there.
To try and get rid of the stoppage, I imported the design into Tinkercad and got rid of the letters, making the bottom solid. This worked for that layer, but it happened again about 20 or 30mm up.
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/hWlKoORjpyW-no-clip-2s-18650-v2/editv2
Since I was so far into the print, I just pulled the filament and put it back in, and it looks like things are working (it's still printing).
Why/how are these filament changes appearing, and more importantly, how can I stop them from happening at all? It doesn't seem to be a setting in Slic3r PE, and it doesn't appear to be anything I've changed. By changing the design and having one go away implies it's something in the model, but I can't find out what it is.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mark
ETA: My 1st few prints with this spool of eSun PETG came out fine, a pretty Benchy and a vase mode test, plus a few other small things. Since then I did the upgrade for Slic3r, perhaps that's the issue? Running Slic3r PE v1.41.0 and firmware 3.3.1
Re: Random filament changes? Not model or settings?
is your filament sensor turned on? maybe try turning if off. I hear is can do odd things with semi clear filaments
where you printing both parts at once?
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Re: Random filament changes? Not model or settings?
That seems to have been the problem, thanks!
Re: Random filament changes? Not model or settings?
nice. happy printing.
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